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Wanda Irving, MPA is forever the mother of Dr. Shalon Irving and Co-Founder of Dr. Shalon’s Maternal Action Project , Inc.,
Wanda is a highly sought-after health equity advocate appearing on national and influential media outlets such as NPR, MSNBC, GMA, Newsy, REVOLT, and Health Affairs, a peer-reviewed healthcare journal to name a few. To date, Wanda has appeared before numerous organizations reaching tens of thousands, with the goal of ending preventable Black maternal deaths in the United States.
Joining today is Wanda Irving, Co-Founder of Dr. Shalon’s Maternal Action Project. Wanda knows grief well. After losing all three of her children, Wanda decided to channel her grief into alleviating Black maternal health disparities, to specifically address the loss of her daughter, Dr. Shalon who died from complications surrounding childbirth. Wanda joins to discuss grief and how she’s used it to spark a movement. Welcome to United Bodies, a podcast about the lived experience of health.
Joining me today is Wanda Irving, co-founder of Dr. Shalon’s Maternal Action Project. Wanda knows grief well. After losing all three of her children, Wanda decided to channel her grief into alleviating black maternal health disparities, to specifically address the loss of her daughter, Dr. Shalon, who died from complications surrounding childbirth. For Wanda, grief sparked sorrow, yes, but also anger. And she’s used that anger to push the needle on maternal mortality for us all.
So by the time he graduated from high school, he was going into a wheelchair. He continued on to college. It took him six years to finish, but he wasn’t giving up at all, and he continued to do his studies. He also formed a nonprofit organization called Poetry Lifeline, where he actually got grants to help kids who were having either trouble with grief or just having family issues that they couldn’t deal with.
And that, I think, angered me more than anything else. That pain turned to intense anger at what had happened to her and why it happened to her. And so that is what has propelled me and kept me upright, because if not for that and for the beautiful little girl she left behind, I wouldn’t have gotten out of bed. It’s like, forget it, I’m done. I’m just done. Your children are amazing forces, I mean, and they live in you and the work that you do in the world, which we will be talking about.
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